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context-sensitive

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Sensitive to context; exhibiting different behaviour depending on a task or situation.
    not-comparable
  2. Involving transformations that are affected by more of the sentence than merely the section under scrutiny.
    not-comparable
  3. Relating to a context-sensitive grammar.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

Françaiscontextuel
Deutschkontextsensitiv

Examples

“Right-click anywhere in the document window, and a context-sensitive menu appears.”
“We introduce⟳ two new techniques for proving termination of context-sensitive rewriting.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

contextful contextless contextual contextualist contextualistic contextualizable

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